Is Hollywood and the rest of the culture industry dying of its own sordid rottenness? From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickson.substack.com:
Enshittifaction has hit Hollywood, Publishing, Newspapers, Magazines, Literature, Art, Music, and Social Media. Out of the ashes….. a new culture.
Across every discipline creators are in distress. In Hollywood particularly, people, ordinary middle-class men and women in their 30s and 40s are living in their cars, and tiktoking their panic because a once healthy income has vanished. Hollywood was so successful, art school graduates could make $5,000 a week to start, and hundreds of thousands a year within five. Eventually this easy money attracted every amoral, repellent, venal, snake-head, male and female, in the world. They, motivated entirely by greed, could be made to do anything. Even, for power, eat babies during Luciferian rituals, if you believe the hundreds of testimonies available.
This is what we lost. We have become a deeply repellent people.
Brutalizing and demoralizing humanity is the only way to make cultural Marxism work. Force us, confuse us, compel us to primitive behaviour. Compromise everyone. And btw, it’s failing. Again. The great prize of America, the end game of every Commie idiot? You lost. You are bound for the ash heap of history. With any luck, long decades of penury and disgrace await you. Please TikTok it.
Has anyone noticed any work of great art emerging from any Communist country? Russia used to produce the most transcendent music and literature the world has ever seen. Since 1917? Nothing. You cannot invert reality and produce anything of value.
AI should take notes.
The collapse was a long time coming but the shudder started during the Hollywood strikes, got worse during Covid and today, even studio executives are losing their jobs. Pause for appropriate schadenfreude.
It’s the content, not the marketplace. Youtube may upload ten times Netflix product every day, but the reason that is happening is that people are fleeing to truth and away from manufactured, repressive, violent and extractive versions of humanity. When I signed up to TikTok, I was relieved beyond measure to watch ordinary middle class housewives, not photoshopped or styled, go about their day in real houses, and no one was stripping off their skin for fun.
